There was a time when playing on the same team with an All-Star big man mattered greatly to Jason Kidd.
The prosecutor apparently did not think the life of a young black man mattered enough to allow a trial jury to determine Officer Wilson's guilt or innocence.
I don't mean to suggest that only prime-age men matter; this is just a relatively clean indicator.
These men matter-of-factly talk about their work over the past decades, work that encompasses torture, spying and assassination and that includes some devastating failures of intelligence.
Kelly wears her tattered history with men matter-of-factly, and she considers herself wise because she believes she's accepted her fate.
(Although the Gosnell trial did seem to get short shrift at first, I felt it was given adequate coverage by the end. But I have thought all along that the Manning matter deserves more sustained evidence of The Times's interest).
Whether set in her native South Africa, in the United States or on unnamed islands, her fiction follows women driven by their visceral impulses, women who live in worlds where men matter, where looks matter, where sex matters -- a lot.
One thing we see with this newly emerging movement is that there's an emphasis on black women and black queer folk – that black boys and black men matter, but also the black women and black girls matter.
Frances Cleaver, "Do men matter?
